A few other things for the "roadmap": - migrating the distribution system to the new Apache way (required by end of year !) - updating the build of Eclipse plugins for P2 and perhaps Tycho style - updating our m2e environment to current levels of m2e and writing the needed additional metadata needed to get that to work well
-Marshall On 11/18/2012 6:36 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > Sounds good to me, +1. > > The main thing will be to get volunteers to do the updates, on approximately > the > road map schedule. > > I think the NLP tasks could be seeded by harvesting our mailing lists for > useful > nuggets. > > Of course, another thing could be to get someone to write a book covering > these > topics. > > -Marshall > > > On 11/18/2012 3:10 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> currently I don't think we have a proper roadmap on the addons development >> so I'd like to propose one. >> >> Some of the addons are based on some other libraries (e.g. Lucene, Solr, >> Tika, etc.) so the first thing I'd like to do is gradually update those to >> newly released major versions; these touches: >> - TikaAnnotator : currently at 0.7, migrate to 1.2 and make a release >> - Lucas : currently at 2.9.3, migrate to 3.6 / 4.x and maybe make one >> release each (because of API / index change from 3.x to 4.x) >> - Solrcas : currently at 3.1, migrate to 3.6 / 4.x and maybe make one >> release each (because of API / index change from 3.x to 4.x) >> >> The following addons providing services from external services may need an >> update as well in order to get latest features >> - OpenCalaisAnnotator >> - AlchemyAPIAnnotator >> then release each of them >> >> For all the others I think it's more or less just bugfixing. >> >> Another thing I'd like to add to our website / documentation is something >> like "how to do NLP task X within Apache UIMA"; we currently have a list of >> external sources plus the addons page but I think it'd be nice for a user >> to know which known open source UIMA enabled options exist for doing e.g. >> language detection, tokenization, etc either in the addons package or from >> some other sources. >> >> What do you think? >> Regards, >> Tommaso >> >
